Does anyone have experience of the above? Inherited one and don’t have a manual! Mowed a field the other day and struggled to get an even height across the cutting width. It’s not the tidiest of machines but it is probably operator error! Only ever really used trailed mowers before
Kuhn fc283 lift control
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Dave W
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- chesterfield
Download a manual from Kuhn. You'll need serial no
Pistonbroke
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New set of proper knives makes a big difference. When we bought ours it didn't have the right type on it. You could have a couple of knives bent too
Put a new set of blades on it. It’s more that the bed isn’t low enough on the side away from the tractor
Simon Chiles
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- Surrey/ Kent Border, UK
There should be a gauge on the front of the machine, open the tap, pressurise the spool until you get required pressure, close tap to hold it there. Higher gauge pressure = lower bed pressure and obviously vice-versa.
Pistonbroke
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Check they are on the right way round. Right PTO speed? Ours is 1000. Is the transport latch releasing to let the bed float?
Pistonbroke
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Never altered ours yet,but is that adjustment made on or off the ground? Book somewhere but can't place it
Is there definitely a tap on that model? Don’t recall seeing one
Pistonbroke
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Might not be a handle on it. Square ended stub near the clock on the headstock. Just a quarter turn I think
You know what the next questions going to be! What pressure should they be at??
YELROM
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- Location
- North Yorkshire
This is what the tap looks like on a 313, seem to remember it being similar on our 283
Pistonbroke
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- Location
- South Devon
Have you got it in the working position and at the right height before reading the pressure?
Pistonbroke
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I'd guess that's too high and that's your problem. Drop it to 100 and try it